timeline

I. Johannes Lamp and wife Susannah in Lehigh and Montgomery Counties in Pennsylvania.

A. 1750 - List of passengers imported in the ship Priscilla, William Wilson, Captain, from Rotterdam. Qualified Sept. 12, 1750 ... Johannes Lamb.

B. 1752 - Johannes and Susannah Lamp sponsor baptism of Johannes Newhart, Egypt Reformed Church, Lehigh County, Pa.

II. John Lamp and son George in Frederick County, Virginia

A. 1768 - John Lamp 320 acre survey dated April 17, 1768 in Frederick County, Virginia.

B. 1790 - John Lamp assigns 320 acre survey to son George Lamp.

C. 1810 - George and wife Elizabeth sell land in Frederick County, Virginia to Peter Milhorn, Sept. 3, 1810.

D. The two story log house built by George Lamp in Frederick County, Virginia was still standing in 1994

III. George Lamp and wife Elizabeth in Belmont County, Ohio 1813.

A. 1815 - George Lamp and wife Elizabeth sell 279 acres in Frederick County, Virginia to George�s brothers, Henry and John, July 15,1815. Belmont County Court acknowledgement, certified to the Frederick County Court, July 20, 1815 at St. Clairsville.

B. George Lamp built a grist mill on Captina Creek, Goshen Township, Belmont County, Ohio.

C. 1813 - Son, Jacob Lamp marries Susannah Snider, August 16, 1813 in Belmont County, Ohio.6

D. 1819 - Son, Joseph Lamp marries Martha Hesson September 2, 1819 in Belmont County, Ohio.7

IV. Susannah Lamp and children in Tyler County, VA/Pleasants County, West Virginia.

A. 1835 - Susannah was born near Harrisburg, PA, in 1794, and died in 1891, at the age of 97. With her ten children she moved from Captina Creek to McKim in 1835. Her children were John, married to Sarah Hanes; George, to Abigail Hanes; Abram, to Elizabeth Varner; Henry, to a Miss Ward; Joshua, to Lottie Virden; Sarah to a Milhoan; Margaret, to Joseph Varner; Catherine, to Seth Ward; Caroline to Eli Wilson.8

B. About the year 1835, a Mr. Lamp (Jacob) brought his wife and ten children to West Virginia from Ohio, and bought land in Tyler County, which was later known as the Matthias Lamp Farm. He gave (Susannah) the farm and one thousand dollars, with the understanding that she was to give each child one hundred dollars as they reached the age of twenty-one. There was no house on this farm, so they built a temporary dwelling of brush.9 Susannah (Snyder) Lamp was full German. She smoked a clay pipe. She sang to her Granddaughter Mary Alice (Wilson) Israel in German from a German song book and also had a Bible printed in the German language.10

C. 1847 - Susannah Lamp was among the first members of the Pine Grove Church of Christ11 and was laid to rest in 1891 in the Church Cemetery .

D. Leah Lamp, my G. G. Grandmother, tenth child of Jacob and Susannah Lamp married William L. Wilson , son of Ralph and Mary Wilson, in Tyler County, VA.12

E. George , the second son, was a wood worker, making wagons, furniture, spinning wheels, etc. He made the window frames for the Cain House in St. Marys.13

F. Eli and Caroline Wilson built the log house on McKim, now used for the Four-H Club, (1929).14

G. John Lamp owned a large tract of land at Jonestown, a dam, saw mill and grist mill. During the (Civil) war someone tried to undermine the dam with quick silver. In the spring when McKim Creek was high, he ran his logs down to the Ohio River and then to Cincincinnati and sold them, returning home on a boat. He built Zoar Chapel on his land for Church and School His daughter Eliza taught in the school house.15

V. Joseph and Martha Lamp in Tyler County, VA/Pleasants County, West Virginia

A. Joseph and Martha (Hesson) Lamp settled at the mouth of Cave run, where he built a saw mill and grist mill. His wife is said to have descended from the Hessians who had been brought from Germany to aid King George in the Revolution. Nine of their 10 children grew to maturity and married. They were Abram, married to Mary Hanes; David, to Hannah Moore; Isaac, to Martha Ward; Serena, to Greenberry Jones; Jane, to John Morgan; Elizabeth, to Simeon Jones; Christina, to Ralph Hanes; and Jacob, to Nancy Odell.16

B. Joseph and Martha (Hesson) Lamp are buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery.17

C. Mary Ann Lamp, my husband Kenneth�s G. G. Grandmother, tenth child of Joseph and Martha Lamp and the mother of Mathias and Cinderella Lamp.18

VI. Jacob Lamp, Catherine Stacker and family in Licking County, Ohio

A. Jacob had fathered three children by Catherine before his wife Susannah left him. Refer to birth dates; Solomon Lamp, Dec. 25, 1829 by Catherine; Caroline Lamp, May 27, 1830 by Susannah; Leah Lamp, May 28, 1832 by Susannah; Lavina Lamp, Dec. 5, 1832 by Catherine; Nimrod Lamp, Nov. 4, 1835 by Catherine; and Jushua Lamp, 1835 by Susannah..19

B. In 1838 Jacob Lamp built a brick house in the Town of Amsterdam, Licking County, Ohio. where he lived until his final illness. He died Jan 25, 1886 at the home of his daughter. Jacob is buried beside Catherine in the Fairmont Church Cemetery, Licking County, OH.20

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

To our pioneer ancestors, who braved the crossing of the Atlantic and homesteaded in the American wilderness.

To my friend Connie Richardson, who collected much of this history. Without her notebook I would not have been able to document much of this report.

To many other descendants who have graciously shared their notes.

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